Topic: My SME 7.3 server only mode server cant send emails

[Africangeek]

Hi all,
this is the first time am posting on this forum. I have always found answers by searching. I have failed to get this. I have installed a SME 7.3 server in server mode only. All the users can receive mail but cannot send. i initially set it when the client had a dynamical ip and it was working perfectly.
Two things happenned
The domain provider setup[ a secondary server on our request
We got a fixed ip.
When we got the fixed ip I did not change anything. the IP set on the server is still the local ip assigned to the server by the router.

Any ideas

[Stefano]

Hi

could you please explain:

- how do you send emails? (directly from your sme, by your isp's smarthost)
- how is your server connected to internet?
- what kind of error you see in the logs?

Ciao
Stefano

[gzartman]

Hi all,
this is the first time am posting on this forum. I have always found answers by searching. I have failed to get this. I have installed a SME 7.3 server in server mode only. All the users can receive mail but cannot send. i initially set it when the client had a dynamical ip and it was working perfectly.
Two things happenned
The domain provider setup[ a secondary server on our request
We got a fixed ip.
When we got the fixed ip I did not change anything. the IP set on the server is still the local ip assigned to the server by the router.

Any ideas

If you are receiving email, then you are very close. 

1. Ensure that the fixed IP that your domain provider gave you resolves to your domain.   Here is a free website that allows DNS and reverse-DNS lookups:  http://www.lookupserver.com/

2. Verify that you SME Server is configured to control your domain name on your LAN.  You can verify this in the server-manager and can change/set it by accessing the console.

3. Verify that your client machine email clients are setup to use your SME Server for incoming and outgoing email.

All of this is covered in detail in the SME Server documentation, located here:  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation

[Africangeek]

Hi

could you please explain:

- how do you send emails? (directly from your sme, by your isp's smarthost)
- how is your server connected to internet?
- what kind of error you see in the logs?

Ciao
Stefano

Thanks
I have attempted to send mail both ways in vain\
Am connected to the netvia a  Adsl level one modem router which is always on.

Some of the logs I see
Mail Log File Analysis
Report generated: Wed 26 Nov 2008 12:18:07 PM EAT
messages in queue: 150
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
End of Report


Mail Log File Analysis
Report generated: Wed 26 Nov 2008 01:15:11 PM EAT
Basic statistics

qtime is the time spent by a message in the queue.

ddelay is the latency for a successful delivery to one recipient---the
end of successful delivery, minus the time when the message was queued.

xdelay is the latency for a delivery attempt---the time when the attempt
finished, minus the time when it started. The average concurrency is the
total xdelay for all deliveries divided by the time span; this is a good
measure of how busy the mailer is.

Completed messages: 3883
Recipients for completed messages: 4247
Total delivery attempts for completed messages: 15332
Average delivery attempts per completed message: 3.94849
Bytes in completed messages: 585691468
Bytes weighted by success: 579098670
Average message qtime (s): 24313.5

Total delivery attempts: 22640
  success: 3958
  failure: 351
  deferral: 18331
Total ddelay (s): 242.228073
Average ddelay per success (s): 0.061200
Total xdelay (s): 373709.970223
Average xdelay per delivery attempt (s): 16.506624
Time span (days): 20.0444
Average concurrency: 0.215788
End of Report

Mail Log File Analysis
Report generated: Wed 26 Nov 2008 01:16:15 PM EAT
messages in queue: 155
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
End of Report
   

[Africangeek]

If you are receiving email, then you are very close.  Good work!

1. Ensure that the fixed IP that your domain provider gave you resolves to your domain.   Here is a free website that allows DNS and reverse-DNS lookups:  http://www.lookupserver.com/

2. Verify that you SME Server is configured to control your domain name on your LAN.  You can verify this in the server-manager and can change/set it by accessing the console.

3. Verify that your client machine email clients are setup to use your SME Server for incoming and outgoing email.

All of this is covered in detail in the SME Server documentation, located here:  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation

Yes the ip configures properly
Point 2i s hard to say whay should the settings be
Point 3 is taken care of.

I have really lloked at this issue and some facts
I have confured 3 servers all with the same SME7.3 CD
The ISP is the same
The are all Dell servers
Two can connect have no problem whatsoever
The two dont have a fixed public IP
The two dont have secondary servers

The one not working was working TILL A secondary aserver was set by the domain hosts
a public IP was given

Question
In the light of the public IP is it anywhere on the server I should imput it
are there setting I should change
is there anything that should point to the secondary server

[Africangeek]

More info
I am using a  level one WBR-3460A both as a modem and router.

Do I need to do any port forwarding.

 

[Africangeek]

help!Looks like no one can help here. Hope nobody else is in the position am in
this server continues to be weird and weirder. I have an account I have forwarded to gmail but I get all like of messages in the admin mail eg
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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

<sentto-3306783-5697-1228312000-jpeter=domain.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. (#4.1.2)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

--- Below this line is the original bounce.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 17248 invoked for bounce); 10 Dec 2008 21:21:26 -0000
Date: 10 Dec 2008 21:21:26 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@domain.com
To: sentto-3306783-5697-1228312000-jpeter=domain.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<jpeter@gmail.com>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. (#4.1.2)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <sentto-3306783-5697-1228312000-jpeter=domain.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com>
Received: (qmail 5051 invoked by uid 5015); 3 Dec 2008 13:47:20 -0000
Delivered-To: jpeter@servername.domain.com
Received: (qmail 5046 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2008 13:47:20 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-jpeter@domain.com
Received: (qmail 5043 invoked by uid 453); 3 Dec 2008 13:47:20 -0000
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.3 required=5.0
        tests=FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_MOSTLY,PYZOR_CHECK,RDNS_NONE
X-Spam-Check-By: domain.com
Received: from Unknown (HELO n26b.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com) (209.131.38.241)
    by domain.com (qpsmtpd/0.40) with SMTP; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:46:46 +0300
Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com;
        b=ZMfi4jK2OUS8NF45+PcAKlFZfLOJ11mYqXT28LcByyfwX0MsjEW8DDvPJ9g53HALKSIqlahKpzgnDbQm6mZBN7l3Z3/0cT49zDRq9gXzgUPXc3NLda866d7dEg2gIVa/;
Received: from [69.147.65.172] by n26.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Dec 2008 13:46:41 -0000
Received: from [66.218.67.109] by t14.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Dec 2008 13:46:41 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 3306783-m5697
X-Sender: bonmenya@yahoo.com
X-Apparently-To: kvetforum@yahoogroups.com
X-Received: (qmail 63008 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2008 13:46:38 -0000
X-Received: from unknown (66.218.67.96)
  by m45.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2008 13:46:38 -0000
X-Received: from unknown (HELO n60.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com) (98.136.44.40)
  by mta17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2008 13:46:38 -0000
X-Received: from [69.147.65.174] by n60.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Dec 2008 13:46:38 -0000
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X-Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp206.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Dec 2008 13:46:37 -0000
X-Received: (qmail 73390 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Dec 2008 13:46:37 -0000
X-YMail-OSG: 72wqqHQVM1lfdNAIi9kCRvcZl4_ufDrJt58DupEJHXSpxUmEK_lEy0aY4ckIZ.1gi.nVU6vtMuMVFomcKwxqxcHhz1u8jRszpynWlBILzIX1UW_Xx8yWC.li527PfIJxUaipBrNJVF1nVh95Ak3FQaRopyY-
X-Received: from [41.222.13.134] by web45005.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:46:37 PST
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1
To: kvetforum@yahoogroups.com
Message-ID: <778153.73364.qm@web45005.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
X-Originating-IP: 98.136.44.40
X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0:0
From: Amenya Hesbon <bonnymenya@yahoo.com>
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[cactus]

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

And you are sure your domain name is domain.com? I think you need to configure a valid primary domain for your server.

Next time also please make use of the code block when posting logs and only try to paste relevant stuff, we really do not need the body of the e-mail, the headers would have been enough in this case.

[Africangeek]

And you are sure your domain name is domain.com? I think you need to configure a valid primary domain for your server.

Next time also please make use of the code block when posting logs and only try to paste relevant stuff, we really do not need the body of the e-mail, the headers would have been enough in this case.

The domain is the right one I just changed it in the post.
Sorry for the long posting. Rectified